Shirley Phelps-Roper, the daughter of the founder of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kan., sued the city of St. Joseph last week over a city ordinance barring protests around funerals and funeral processions. Phelps-Roper and members of her church believe ...
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Read More »Sprinting furiously to put as much distance as possible between themselves and the radioactive Rod Blagojevich, Democrats for weeks seemed not to notice certain obvious truths. Law trumps politics. Blagojevich remains governor of Illinois. He is an innocent man under ...
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Read More »Last Wednesday afternoon a sheriff in a small Alabama town went to jail. He didn’t go there for breaking Alabama law. Instead, Sheriff Greg Bartlett was placed in his own jail after prisoners there testified in a Birmingham, Ala., U.S. ...
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Read More »More lawyers have been tapped to hold key roles in Jay Nixon’s administration. Nixon on Friday announced that he has chosen Stephen Danner to lead the Missouri National Guard, and picked Lawrence Rebman to run the state’s labor department. Nixon ...
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Read More »The U.S. Attorney’s Office and the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Career Criminal Unit will be working with a new Violent Offenders Unit aimed to stop the area’s most violent crimes. St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom announced the formation of ...
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Read More »Thank you, Bernie Madoff. I want to be the first to give you credit for the great service you’ve done for the investing public. Your alleged misdeeds are so over the top, even for these times, that I think Congress ...
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Read More »After a year of denying the U.S. economy was in recession, the herd has turned and is charging full speed in the opposite direction. Now there’s no chance we’ll ever get out of this mess. The financial system is broken. ...
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Read More »The sign said “Open Today!” and you couldn’t resist. So what possessed you to go through a for-sale house that you could never afford? Curiosity, sure. But maybe it was a little bit of what-iffing that led you to peek ...
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Read More »A few years ago, we were told it’d be no time before we were carrying only one gadget that replaced our phone, camera, GPS, Internet device, portable media player, and every other doohickey that had ever been imagined. And as ...
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Read More »Lil Wayne’s “Tha Carter III” was the best-selling album of 2008, a year in which total album sales fell 14 percent as consumers continued to buy single songs online, such as top-seller “Bleeding Love” by Leona Lewis. Total U.S. music ...
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Read More »If you thought things were getting tight last month, get ready for the big squeeze. While I would love to start 2009 with some rosy predictions, one theme sticks in my mind: Cash will never be more important. You need ...
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